• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this October beat the previous record by 43%, and it’s still just a preliminary total. That is out of this world. There were nearly 100 separate buyers, according to the individual deal data available in LevinPro LTC, the most prolific being, unsurprisingly, Welltower. But Welltower’s activity is actually understated in the figures, as a significant... Read More »

Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per unit. The deal consisted of nearly 900 units in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with the communities built between 2017 and 2022. One group of properties were considered to be value-add, while the other was classified as core (we imagine that was the $1 million+ per unit deal). Newmark also sold two assisted living/memory... Read More »

Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Binder is from Missouri and was knowledgeable about each community’s local market. Provision Living operated the portfolio. The communities were operating well, with occupancy rising from 84% at the time of PSA to 92% at close, and EBITDAR growing from $6 million to $6.7 million in the same period. Like its other recent... Read More »

Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the start of November.  LTC Properties used those proceeds to fund a $23 million, or $261,400 unit, purchase of an 88-unit assisted living and memory care community in Marietta, Georgia. The community is currently stabilized at 90% occupancy and is expected to deliver a year-one yield of approximately 7%. The Arbor Company, a new LTC operating... Read More »

MIG Announces Two Closings

Montgomery Intermediary Group announced a couple of transactions at the end of October. First, Andrew Montgomery sold a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in southern Illinois in a value-add deal. Built in the 1960s and 1970s, the facility had a roughly 50% Medicaid census, with between 30% and 35% private pay and 5% to 10% Medicare. It was losing money. Jeremy Warren of MIG helped finance the deal, as well, arranging 80% loan-to-cost financing with a 20-year term and a variable rate in the low-7s. He secured the loan from a regional lender, and this was the fifth building that Warren financed in the past 45 days. Then, Montgomery sold a 38-unit assisted living community in a small Missouri... Read More »

Senwell Facilitates Bed Transfer Deal

Brandon Bohland and Collin Hempfling of Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the transfer of 80 adult care home bed licenses in Wake County, North Carolina. A national institutional assisted living owner/operator engaged the firm after the community suffered significant damage from a fire and ultimately closed.  There was a highly competitive bid process that generated multiple strong offers from qualified buyers, with the result maximizing the seller’s exit value. After working with attorneys, regulatory bodies and stakeholders, Senwell completed the transfer of the licenses to a large regional owner/operator.  Read More »